Lead the Way by Your Example So That Others may Follow You

             Eastertime is a season of the year when we all celebrate the new life that is given from On High to the northern hemisphere of this planet.  The southern hemisphere has already had its season of harvesting and settled down for the winter months ahead.

          Either way it should be a time of celebration to thank our Creator for what we have received or to give thanks for what we feel we have earned by our goodness to each other throughout the past year.  In reality it is a very different picture, where Mankind is exercising power over humanity at the expense of the weaker and poorer populations.

Man is set on a course of power grabbing for himself and is dismissive of the needs of his fellow man in the street or down the country lane of life.  Until Man learns that every created being has a right to the basic necessities of life, whether that is in the deserts or the congested centres of city life, there will be no peace in the world.

          I came two thousand years ago to bring a message from our Creator to ALL men, women and children on how to live together in harmony and peace.  There was a Church founded in my name, but not on the principles that I taught.

          What matters is not the external grabbing of worldly wealth, so that the ones at the top of the pile can have luxuries every day of their lives, but what is in their hearts and minds to help all others who are in need.

          Politicians, Church leaders and bankers have all the opportunities to help the people most and yet it is left to the charities and medical relief systems to hold up the fallen as best they can, leaving the wealthy and the powerful to simply look after themselves by acquiring more.

          The time is coming and has almost arrived in some areas, where the justice of Spiritual and Earthly Laws are exposing the wickedness that many have secreted behind closed doors in the hurry to acquire wealth and prosperity for themselves.

            It is no longer acceptable to be a member of their little clubs and societies of favour to get around the misdemeanours that have been perpetrated by so many on the populace of this world.  It is time that the Higher Intelligence left his calling card and it is their job to respond or be taken out.

          Until the mind-sets of all individuals are examined and set on a course of wellbeing, there can be no more excesses against the manipulation of the common peoples’ lives.  They are not common in abilities, but in receiving an unfair deal from those, who instead of dealing in love and compassion send out fear and hatred to a disjointed world.

          It is not uncommon to see this picture wherever you are living and the communications of the 21^st century make it easy enough to read of the atrocities, which are being committed all over the world.  I didn’t give up my life to the Romans and the Jewish leaders in order for hurt and failure to be a pattern across the divide between this world and the next.

          Those souls, who understand the nature of my calling, will understand that it was all about love between our Father’s creations and harmony in sharing the wonders of the world and not applying a book of rules to further the ends of the greedy.

          My sacrifice was a clear example that life is everlasting and therefore nobody can escape the payment of their follies in this world or the next.  Life on this earth is but a very short time in the measurement of eternity, which our Father has granted us with his unconditional love.

          It may take a lifetime here on earth to realise that to change the mind-set from the wrongs of greed and avarice to the loving harmony of Spiritual Law is the only way that a soul can progress towards that Kingdom of Heaven of which I spoke.

          Realisation of the truth must enter into that mind-set sooner or later and to start here on this earth plane by living with the needs of one’s fellow man, rather than in squeezing out what he has got for one’s own benefit is an important lesson to understand.

          All errors and mistakes are learning curves, which must be learned fully and executed by remorse and total understanding, before that soul can move on to the Summerland of the world above.

          What I told you all is that you reap what you sow!  There is no doubting of this fact and to accommodate your errors against each other, there is an eternity to discover the truth before a soul can enjoy the fruits of his or her labours.

          It is by these fruits that you are known and by your achievements you will be recognised by those who have gone before you and made life a sweeter rather than a bitterer experience for all those that they met along the way.

          If you are not prepared to change, then so be it!  You will be taken to the Darkness of Ignorance, where you belong until you have earned the right to the unconditional love of the Father.

          It is in your hearts and minds that you must be counted and shown to shine by your deeds and actions alone.  The Church and all religious bodies have no understanding of this as they are only after power over your actions.

          Ask yourself this, “Do I really care for others or am I alone in the glitter and falsehoods of earthly life?”  When you stand naked before the judgement of heavenly love, you will be unable to hide anything you have ever done or thought.

          The future happiness of you and yours around you, depends on you seeing love and leaving hatred and fear in the darkness, as you glow in the light of goodness, so that your good deeds are a role model and a leading light to all who know you.  Amen to that.

Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

Take a good look at your life and see what you have achieved and what you need to put on track, because what you do today shapes tomorrow.  It is so easy to sleepwalk through life and then find out that you have really done nothing with it.

Our Father Creator gives us every opportunity to love our fellow man, woman and child, so that we can share all our ups and downs together and so equalise our state of being together in harmony.

It seems that this method of living has been somewhat lost through the growth of individual egos and the path to riches at whatever cost to others.  Today there is no saving up for a new gadget in the commercial world, because it must be had now and paid for tomorrow.

Nobody shares any more as each must have their own and so it all becomes a status symbol as to what each has in material terms and hardly ever is it noticed how a soul grows in richness with the spiritual way of life.

Material clutter cannot be taken into the next dimension, where life continues and spiritual achievements are honoured, as progression towards the giver of life and love and where the joy is felt whenever one soul enacts with love for a fellow being.

Taking time for each other is a way of harmonising together.  All souls have issues that are not always clear and, by sharing them, so often it becomes a fulfilling for mutual benefits as in giving and receiving of enlightenment.

The joy felt when another has experienced a moment of truth is fulfilling to both and the truth is the only way that justice and enlightenment can become a way of life for the better.

We all need encouragement and seeing that we are progressing and moving on in the right direction.  We all feel good when we are praised for our successes and we know that we have reached another’s heart and mind.

People cannot always see the way ahead when complex issues cloud their judgement, as this world is full of clouds of confusion that blind the uninitiated.  It is only through spiritual guidance that the true way can be found.

When we look within ourselves and understand in the quietness of our own soul who and what we truly are, then we can adapt our way of being to fulfil the life that Our Creator intended us to lead.

However, too often we are too busy to stop and try and find the quietness within, when we can communicate with our guides and helpers and listen to our own conscience directing us through the right avenues of life and safeguarding us from the wrong ones.

Nevertheless we are never alone unless we choose that path and turn our backs on the unconditional love that emanates from above, which warms our hearts and minds so that we know that we can never be lost and always will be looked after as all creations are.

Not everybody chooses to serve his fellow men and women in devotion of service, but those who do are fulfilled and blessed.  Those who chose this way of life are instinctively guided along their path and are usually nurses and doctors, who brave the rigors of remote lands where people are in most need.

Regardless of risk to their own lives they help others, usually through organisations that have resources and specialist back up, but even in the small communities where you may live there are souls who can be depended on to do the community work that is needed.

We all need to see where there is a lack of kindness and love to be fulfilled, so that we might consider the plight of others where we feel that we can do more than just sending out our prayers.

Healers know the feeling of giving the power of the Almighty to bring comfort to others and sometimes miracles are born and cures are given that cannot be given my Man’s own medical resources.

Remember how I explained who your neighbour was and don’t walk by on the other side.  We are all at risk of being the victim at some moments of our lives and we all need the help of others, so if we give to our neighbours where we can, there will be some help due to us when we too are in need.

Look around the world and see what is going on outside your own little circle.  See the hopelessness in places where love has been sucked out and only hatred and fear rule there.  Think of the abused children who have lost their childhoods and often their families.

Send them your love and ask for healing, so that those who serve our Father Creator in practice and not just by giving him lip service, can be found there to aid the needy and you will have helped to lift the negativity that is lodged in so many minds these days.

If we all did a little bit more it would make a difference, so do what you can and listen to your conscience.  The Higher Intelligence has special ways of being heard, so listen for his guidance and do his will.  Amen to that.

It used to be a Wonderful World!

What a world we are living in now!  Climate change had caught up with us on the one hand and the hostility of man against man has disgraced the beauty and love that he was born with.  Women and children go in fear of their lives and many do die.

Wherever one looks at this time there is very little to smile about, because Mankind has lost the plot and lives in a day to day world giving no thought to the happenings which will result from his follies.

He burns fossil fuels without constrain and wonders why he is warned of impending doom from scientists, who care about the world and about humanity which inhabits it.  The ice melts, the sea level rises, the weather patterns become extreme and the volcanos erupt.

There are wars in so many countries and there are people fuelling these wars and peace talks can find no common ground.  Only the purveyors of arms have a field day, because they make money and they don’t care if people die.

Wild life is being hunted to extinction, so that a few misguided and selfish people can have ornaments and medicines that contain no elixir but sell for a higher price.  When there are no more of those species left, what will they do then?  So stop now before that happens.

Soon there will be no significant wild life left and soon there will be no undamaged soil from pollution and green matter will be so damaged by flood and wind that it will become scorched by winter snow storms or by high summer temperatures and drought.

This is no scaremongering, but a survival message as it is already happening and Governments and industries are taking no notice and the world is destroyed before their very eyes.  What legacy is that to leave to one’s children and their children or perhaps there won’t be any after that…

This planet was once beautiful and a place to live in peace and with happy children growing up to learn the natural world was a gift from the Universal Intelligence, who some called ‘God’, but really didn’t know!

I came and called him ‘Our Father’, which he certainly is without any disputing, because he gave us life and love.  Most have now turned their backs on the light of his love and he is mistakenly abused and forgotten.

Soon, as the world becomes more like a despoiled rubbish tip, covering the surface with pollution and squalor, the people will begin to ask, “Why has all this happened?”  They will start to look at their own selfish behaviour and greed that was set by Mankind itself for them to follow and they did unwisely not question the cost.

Until the pain becomes unbearable and the damage is so severe, the people of today do not turn to their Creator and acknowledge his existence by begging for help.  Nothing is given until it comes from the very heart and soul of an earthy person.

For too long, religious bodies have sought to control the destinies of the humble people of this world.  They have and still do fight wars against their completion, be it another sect or another mainstream faith with a big shout.

Nobody needs to be told by another what to believe or that these clerics can forgive their sins – no mortal man can.  Within each and every one of us we have been given our own direct line to Our Creator – it is called our conscience.

We always know when we have done wrong.  Even if we turn away from the truth because, by using that direct line, our thoughts and our deeds are carried to the Greater Intelligence and we can never get away with what we have done.

We are responsible for our own thoughts and actions and our conscience is a two-way communication between us and On High, so we can use it for good or for ill.  If we choose the latter, we turn ourselves into the darkness of ignorance as so many have and the way back is harder and as we must atone for our mistakes and make amends by ourselves alone and not through another.

Listen to the sense that is within us all and behave in a civilised manner to your fellow man, woman and especially the children.  They are suffering most at this time, as so many have lost their childhoods and their innocence by the misdemeanours through either the guns or the cloth.

Take time out to think about your life and your world, because nobody can do it for you.  You alone are responsible for your actions and you will soon find when you leave this earth plane, if not before, that you have nowhere to hide.

In the Spirit World, where we all go from here, but at different levels according to our accomplishments, we are naked to the truth of our ambitions and our achievements.  We were sent here to love and help each other.  Where did it go so wrong?

It is not too late to live together as one great family of human souls, but first one must remember to love each other and dispel the hate and fear that individuals spawn over others to get their way and to fulfil their greed, which at times appears to be insatiable.

Stand up for yourself knowing that you are loved in Spirit and can and will be helped if you truly listen to the conscience that you were given and act in love and harmony with each other and then together we can all go forward and start to save this world before it is too late and humanity kills itself and is no more.

Dispel the Darkness of Ignorance

The world is in a precarious position and is teetering on the edge of destruction by its own hand.  Few people tell the truth and it is almost impossible for the people to know who to believe and trust in and very often it is their own politicians and leaders.

There are outbreaks of violence throughout all lands and no one is safe within their own countries anymore and, even in the so called civilised nations of the western world, there are atrocities regularly witnessed within families and friends.

The religious bickering and misrepresentation of the sacred texts are misused to bring about simply what groups want to accomplish for themselves at the expense of the women and children, who should be in their charge and protection.

Human Rights Organisations have had to be set up around this world to highlight the atrocities that go on both behind closed doors and also out in the open on a bigger scale, as people commit heinous crimes to get what they want and leave humanity bereft and empty.

The numbers of people, who believe in a Higher Intelligence, are dwindling, as they fail to see any more the Hand of God, bringing instant retribution on those who behave badly and the religious houses continue to blemish his name by their own selfish and degrading actions.

  I came to teach a right way of living and a right code of behaviour, but alas many, then as now, turn away from the spiritual conscience within themselves, where is housed the truth of all reality into living a good and honest life.

No more is it taught to the children, that honesty and good deeds are an essential part of finding peace within one’s own lives, so that the mind and body can realise their potential and, by helping others along the road of life, harmony and peace is born and nurtured.

How can love be a driving force in the way to share and live, when there are so few examples of it at work on a global basis?  Today it is fear and greed that are creating a lawless world, where anything goes providing one isn’t caught and so many believe that they can and will get away with their crimes against humanity itself, whether it is in a small way or on a massive scale.

There are proofs appearing all over the world, especially at this time that people cannot get away with it, as many are exposed and punished even after decades in which they thought that they were invincible.

The tragedy is that people are not learning from the examples of others being brought to book and are still enlarging their egos by their petty successes and then going on to gamble with their lives as well as other peoples, in order to make massive excesses of wealth and power by whatever means becomes available.

Nothing gained on earth can be taken from the physical into the spirit life, but it is certain that each and every person has a record of their lives that will be fully opened and explored when they depart this world for the next, because to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, which I preached about, requires that a soul has earned its place by living in the right way of love, peace and sharing with its fellow man.

Take all that you want from this time on earth if you want to, but nothing is free and yours forever, as you will need to atone along that long dark road of ignorance until you glimpse the light of the love, which you destroyed on your journey through your selfish actions on the men, women and children that you encountered.

Those who have taken a sharing and humble path along the roadway of life, know that to have enough is a blessing and that too much is a liability, which must be shared out even-handedly with all, so that need, as in poverty and distress, becomes a thing of the past.

There is enough for all and to see the wealth piled up in the shrines of religion to please ‘God’ fails every time, because Our Creator made us in love at every stage and the pain that Mankind enforces on the many to assuage the appetites of the few is an abomination in his sight.

‘God’ does not require trinkets of glitter and colour.  He requires that we feed and dress and educate our children of this world to be loving citizens, who will see that all are fed and nurtured by their example and that the hoarding of global wealth is punished and the distribution of necessities of justice, peace and harmony are abundant, so that all souls can live together in his sight and produce loving vibrations in gratitude for all the gifts that he gives around the world to all who believe and understand his Universal Laws.

The darkness of ignorance must be swept away, so that the love and light of good behaviour to each other becomes the norm and those who will not change their mind-sets accordingly will have be taken out of the equation.

It is no longer possible to allow the destruction of all that this planet holds which is good, because of the material dis-ease is driving a wedge between those who have in abundance and those whose needs are ignored.

Take the time to look within yourselves in all honesty and begin that slow turning around of your knowing mind that tells the difference between what is right and what is wrong and apply it in your daily life, so that the spring of eternal life is not muddied by your laziness to address the goodness within you and the flow of knowledge and good deeds can forever shine forth through your actions for all to see.  Amen.

Christmas Cheer

          As the Winter Solstice appears again in the Northern Hemisphere, Christians are expected to celebrate the birth of an infant in a stable in Bethlehem, now in the war-torn Middle East.

 

          This was always a political necessity, evolved from a festival in Northern Europe to celebrate the lengthening of the daylight after the winter darkness by the missionary zeal of the Catholic Church of Rome, where many disciples had perished in the service of their beliefs.

 

          Today, the need to celebrate the arrival of any light into the darkness of Mankind’s ignorance and into his continued belief that he may live well and prosper without the Higher Intelligence, who made him in love and light, is a welcome thing to behold.

 

          The festival, which is now a worldwide event, is a festival of merchants plying their wares for profit, much like the money changers in the Temple of Jerusalem two thousand years ago.

 

          Many religious houses still cling to the crib in the stable idea of a salvation, which was a child born from On High to a virgin and they miss the bigger miracle of life that happens every day, even in the war-torn nations of the world and especially those just a few miles away from Bethlehem in Syria and its neighbours in the Middle East.

           Here the Parable of the Samaritan, set on that very road to Damascus, about a man who helped his neighbour by binding his wounds and leaving money at the inn for his recovery and welfare, has been forgotten by wealthy countries who border Syria and they continue to walk by on the other side.

           I told the Parable of the Good Samaritan when I was asked, “Rabbi, who is my neighbour?”

           I now ask that question of all nations, who border countries where there is unrest in the world and I ask them, “Who is your neighbour?”

           Read your good books if you are unaware of their teaching, because they all say that you should help your neighbour, whether you are Jew or Muslim or Christian, the message is the same, “Help your neighbour!”

           When will Mankind realise that religions are but a power base for those who fight each other in a holy war of ignorance.

           There is but one source of Higher Intelligence, way above your comprehension, who created each and every one of you to give you life and love.  You understand the difference between life and bodily death, but you fail each and every time to understand the difference between loving your neighbour and hating your neighbour.

           When will you put aside you material lives of greed and self-interest and work together with all that you have in common for a better world.  Learn to love and to trade with what you have and discuss ideas for the better ways for humanity to be human.

           Why must you all shed blood and kill the beautiful creations of the Most High, who made all Jews and Muslims and Christians equally to love each other and to live happily in harmony and peace.

           Nobody has a direct right to sit on the right hand of ‘God’ until he has earned that place and that can never be until all past deeds and mistakes have been purged from your soul by your own hand and by your own understanding.

           At this time of the Solstice, wherever you are in the world and whatever colour or creed you are, I invite you to go into the quietness of your own mind and ask yourself honestly, “Who is my neighbour and what does he need me to do for him at this time?”

           Please don’t think or expect any reward or favour, as ‘God’ asks for none when he helps you and is your saviour many times a day, whether you care to notice it or not.

           Remember that you are here to make the world a better place because you came, not richer or poorer by trading in self-interest, but simply by giving your neighbour what he most needs, whether you are a rich nation sitting on your hands next to a refugee camp on your borders or an individual, who looks up to the Higher Intelligence and gives thanks for what you have and shares it with those who don’t.

 

God blesses you all and so do I, Amen.

 

Be At One with the Spirit with Whom All Things Are Possible

          Take a good look at your life and see if it is going the way that you want it to.  You can’t be held responsible for your mistakes and errors if you are genuinely in the wrong place at the wrong time, but you will be held responsible if you simply choose to look the other way and neglect your opportunities.

          Everybody has a choice.  Believe me nothing is left to chance when it comes to doing the right thing.  If you live your life the right and proper way that I have taught you, then you will see that your neighbour treats you as a loving friend, because you have befriended him in his hour of need and you will have no regrets about what you have done and you have left nothing undone.

           Too many people turn their back on the right and proper way to live, because they have more ego than sense.  Common sense implies that if you treat others as you would like to be treated, then you will be on the right road to a shared happiness in this world and the next dimension to come.

           However, if you are too busy saving up material things for yourself which you will never need and will almost certainly lose, then you are inviting a very lonely future in this world and the next.  Those who like people with material wealth are always on the make themselves and are always looking for more, so be warned – these sort of people never have enough!

           When I look down at the world today and I see all its troughs and pains of inhumanity to humans and the environment, I can see with sadness, so many who have more than they need, still taking from those who do not have enough.

           Where are the compassion and the sacredness of human life and existence?  Why are so many treating weaker souls as slaves and objects of little importance after they have served their purpose?

          I cannot see why women and children are so abused across this ragged world of hate and fear, when they should be loved and cherished, so that they are able to give of their very best to the future of the human race.

           Wars are a cancer all around this globe, where fighting is fanned by wealthy nations as an industry, so that armament manufactures and sellers can be employed in their deadly chosen careers.  These people have no morals and will sell to anybody instruments of death if the price is right.

          There is a shortage of hospitals and schools across this world and food, water and shelter are in short supply in many areas.  Industry has brought about climate change by its loss of control and the poisoning of the natural world.  The fauna and flora are being reduced to dangerous levels of existence.

          When will Mankind wake up to the dangers and irresponsibilities that he is creating through his selfishness and greed and by refusing to allow equality to come into the equation?

Very soon now, if he continues to close his ears and to block his mind to the realities of life, there will be nothing to stop the whole world becoming a wilderness without water and with searing heat burning anything that is left.

Huge weather systems are already emphasising the dangers of sleeping through the neglected years of balancing the scales, so that everybody and everything is in harmony and there will always be enough for all.  Today the balance is lopsided and irregular.

Many countries are too busy playing politics and they will not understand until their fingers are burning and then self-destruction through total combustion will not be too far behind.

 

In the Book of Revelations dire things were forecast.  They don’t have to happen if Mankind takes responsibilities and listens to the answers to his problems.  We all have a conscience, but half the world are not listening to theirs and the other half seems unable to find a way to make the first half wake up and be responsible.

The time is fast coming when the last throw of the dice will bring damnation, not from the pulpit, but from the actions of humanity upon themselves.

I came to teach love and you prefer war.  I brought you proof of everlasting life, but you fill your coffers with things that you don’t need and can’t take with you.  You are not prepared for bodily death, because you can’t make a fast buck on the other side and will have to wait in darkness until your ignorance is enlightened.

I said that the meek will inherit the earth and you still cannot see that you are forcing the destruction of life itself, so that the Creator of all things will have no alternative but to send you packing and leave those who humbly try to do their best, despite the bullying and forceful ways of the hardliners of self, to share goodness with all they meet and know.

Before the end of the world will come the beginning of the end, when those who have turned their back on the Higher Intelligence will perish and leave those who ask him for help to succeed in love with each other, will win the day.

Help will be given to them and the meek and humble will inherit the earth, because they are the only ones who have understanding and love for Universal Laws and the respect of the sacredness of life itself.

Reflect while you still can and be at one with the Spirit with whom all things are possible.

Be Good to Each Other and you Will Receive Goodness according to Your Worth

Goodness is golden in the way of spiritual unconditional love that is given by the Father to all his children.  That is a fact of life.  What we have to do is to realise that we are human and that we are prone to make mistakes.

However, the difference in errors made by the good and the worthy from which they learn and move on, is totally different from the calculated choices that some other people make in not doing the right thing, but deliberately and without feeling take advantage of another or others for their own benefit, believing that they will get away with it.

We all make mistakes and that is part of the learning curve of humanity, but it is the intention that rules the difference here between a mistaken action or a moment of thoughtlessness and the deliberate turning away from what ones true conscience teaches in order to take a personal advantage.

The large part of today’s world is shrouded in negativity and thoughtlessness.  People tend to take what they want without thinking of the longer term effects and the consequences to others.  Many are deafened by their own greed and selfishness.

All things are seen by the Father and all actions are monitored in such a way that after a mistake is made then there is a time given for reflection before the comeuppance of Spiritual Law comes into effect.

As I am often saying and did so many times during my ministry on this earth plane, “What you sow, so shall you reap.”  There is no way of escaping this Law, which is at the very heart of all the Laws and Scriptures that have ever been given.

In order to live a good life, each and every soul needs to learn from their genuine mistakes and love their fellow man, woman and child as though they would be treated in the same way that they would wish to be treated themselves.  Then they are close indeed to God, the Father.

The spiritual world is to me a very large family, with the Father at the very pinnacle of it, as the supreme Universal Intelligence of unconditional love and wisdom.  It is he that is responsible for all things that occur within Universal Law. He is the mother and father of all Creation.

We were made in his likeness, by which I mean that within us all is a tiny part of his majesty and love, which guides us through life by giving us the difference between a right way of living and behaving and another way.

This is our conscience, our mind-set of decision making, which is our very being, our essence of life itself.  This is the gift that we have been given and this is what makes us unique and different from one another, because it is the experiences that we encounter and the decisions that we make that forms us into what and who we are.

To be guided with such wisdom is the most important fabric of our existence.  It is what forms our reality of accomplishment on this earth plane and is a perfect record of what we have achieved, but where we fail, perhaps there is still the opportunity to reshape our mind-set in the right and proper way.

After we leave this body we are still alive and well in our spiritual body, which I amply demonstrated to all who wished to understand the meaning of life itself by showing myself after three days had elapsed and also at later times.

During that time I was, like all others who came to this earth, examined by the Spirit in a loving and compassionate way, but my life and achievements and errors where laid open to my scrutiny, as you will find when you pass.

There is no hiding from the truth, so you can never ‘get away’ with your little disappointments or acts of selfishness.  Live in love and share your lives in this family that has been created, so that all may be connected and demonstrate our true feelings and gifts for all to see and for all to honour in the right way. 

There is no escape from the past, so what you have done you will reap.  If you have made mistakes then put them right on the earth plane and therefore do not bring them with you at your passing, where they will be brought to your attention and you will have to make good your harm to others by your own neglect.

As you live your life, so you will reap your reward or comeuppance.  The choice is very much up to you, but I can promise you this.  All those who try to put right what they have done wrong will be helped to do so and a genuine heart is as the prodigal son returning to the Father, where there is always unconditional love in welcoming home the child that strayed, but who came home to make amends, as you would welcome your children, would you not?